24 Character Countdown (Episode 12)
Tom Lennox (16) 
-Pulled the absolute weirdest faces while he was tied up and had duct tape over his mouth. (-4)
-Pretended to go along with Reed’s plan so Reed would untie him (+3)
-In complete Un-Tom-Lennox form he gave up Reed and his henchman without even batting an eyelash. BRAVO! (+25)
-Acted like a complete weenie while being interrogated (-5)
Net Gain/Loss: +19
Current Total: 35
President Wayne Palmer (49)
-I just noticed, while Wayne was lying there in bed getting surgery that he bears an uncanny resemblance to Gary Payton (+2)
Net Gain/Loss: +2
Current Total: 51
Bill Buchanan (120)
-Welcome back the Good Ol’ Bill who recaps everything from the last episode for us. The only thing missing from his recapping speeches are “Previously on 24� (+4)
-Ordered Nadia to put together a task force that will most likely contain Rick “Ricky� Schroder, to go and rescue Jack. I can’t wait (+7)
Net Gain/Loss: +11
Current Total: 131
Nadia Yassir (112)
-Got a close up (+5)
Net Gain/Loss: +5
Current Total: 117
Jack Bauer (361)
-Still doesn’t trust Logan at all (+3)
-Has some giant cajones going back into a consulate illegally. I mean some really, really giant cajones! (+15)
-Speaks Russian, who knew? (+5)
-Let Markov push the panic button (-3)
-Didn’t check Markov’s office for cameras (-5)
-Threatened to cut off Markov’s fingers (+5)
-Actually did it! (+8)
-Got the information out of Markov (+9)
-Didn’t call Bill right away when he was standing in front of Markov (-10)
-Acted like he was going to walk right out the front door, and then got blown back by an explosive planted on the door. How did Jack not see that coming? Poor form Jack (-12)
-Got one of the Russian agents to believe him (+5)
-Too bad the dude got a bullet in the back of the head before he could warn CTU (-6)
Net Gain/Loss: +14
Current Total: 375
Chloe O’Brian (163)
-Now breaks protocol for Jack like it was actual protocol, which it should be. It’s the Jack Bauer protocol and it’s the only thing that works (+10)
Net Gain/Loss: +10
Current Total: 173
Morris O’Brian (67)
-Found the one unshielded computer within the Russian consulate (+5)
-Read Russian ASCII code (+3)
-Is apparently the smartest man to ever touch his fingers to a keyboard (+7)
Net Gain/Loss: +15
Current Total: 82
Sandra Palmer: (13)
-Didn’t appear in this episode (+5)
-Will most likely appear in future episodes because Wayne is all blown up (-10)
Net Gain/Loss: -5
Current Total: 8
Charles Logan (108)
-Isn’t offended at all by no one actually trusting him (+5)
-Has a sweet tracking bracelet (+3)
-Apparently has a voice within his “deepest self,� I’m not sure whether that’s religion or schizophrenia (-4)
-Doesn’t smoke anymore, probably because the voice inside him told him not to do it (+4)
-Threatened to expose Markov (+6)
-Didn’t actually get any information (-8)
-Knew Markov was lying. Takes one to know one (+10)
Net Gain/Loss: +16
Current Total: 124
Vice President Powers Boothe (100)
-Is the scariest Vice President ever (+4)
-Does a good job at hiding the utter joy he has about stepping into the presidency. I thought I saw a little smile behind those eyes (+3)
-Has an even more grizzly voice than that of Jack Bauer, I didn’t even know that was possible (+7)
-Really, really wants Assad to be involved in the bombing (-5)
-Threatened the Russian President (+6)
Net Gain/Loss: +15
Current Total: 115
Karen Hayes (108)
-Apparently spent the last few episodes chilling at the airport (-5)
-Has a sweet sprint phone to watch her news on (+6)
-Probably didn’t realize, after spending 3 hours at an airport that airports usually have big TV’s that show the news to (-8)
Net Gain/Loss: -7
Current Total: 101
LEADERBOARD:
Jack Bauer—375
Chloe O’Brian—173
Bill Buchanan—131
Charles Logan—124
Nadia Yassir—117
Vice President Powers Boothe—115
Milo—105
Karen Hayes—101
Morris O’Brian—82
President Wayne Palmer—51
Tom Lennox—35
Sandra Palmer—8
This week’s awards are all up to you the reader, so make them good. I’ll post them in this Countdown.
Special Awards Given by the Readers:
From Ken:
The ‘He finally learned his lesson award’: Jack for putting his phone on vibrate during a stealth mission! Yes!
The ‘I guess he didn’t’ followup award: Jack for not only invading another foreign consolate but getting captured by another foreign government again. And this after the first time completely ruined the last five years of his life.
Most guest appearances in season 6: The fan phone number! For the fourth or fifth time this season, a character pimps the fan phone.
From Edmundo:
Who Knew’ Award: Tie between Jack and Morris, both for knowing Russian;
‘Drag Queen’ Award: Jack, for looking like his lipstick was smeared a bit in that last scene.
From Marc:
Most Trusting Dummy Award: Goes to Reed for getting fooled by Tom again and again and again.
Fastest Recovery Award: Goes to Markov for getting up and being able to punch Jack merely seconds after getting punched multiple times in the face and losing his finger. Simply amazing.
From Asa:
The Pepto-Bismol Award: Goes to Tom Lennox for being able to control his bowel movements whilst being grilled by the terrifyingly formidable and unbelievably frightening VP.
From Tama:
Sadest person Award: Goes to the Russian consulate, who cannot smile at all. Heck, when he tries to, all he actually manages to do is smirk and sulk at the same time with a smidge of hatred!
From Chuck:
Most Disturbing Face Twitch Award: Goes to the Russian Consulate…His left cheek had a 5 minute seizure.
24, Kiefer Sutherland, Jack Bauer, Character Countdown, Season 6, Episode 12
March 6th, 2007 at 2:43 pm
The ‘He finally learned his lesson award’: Jack for putting his phone on vibrate during a stealth mission! Yes!
The ‘I guess he didn’t’ followup award: Jack for not only invading another foreign consolate but getting captured by another foreign government again. And this after the first time completely ruined the last five years of his life.
An excellent Jack episode for all of the right reasons.
March 6th, 2007 at 3:08 pm
I almost forgot:
Most guest appearances in season 6: The fan phone number! For the fourth or fifth time this season, a character pimps the fan phone.
March 6th, 2007 at 3:38 pm
Nice addition to the countdown. I love these articles! Keep up the good work!
Is anyone else excited to see that Aaron will be returning in the next episode?
March 6th, 2007 at 4:27 pm
Please note that Kari Matchett (Vice President Powers Boothe’s Secretary) is, in fact, an alien. Her real name is Dr. Mariel Underlay. Expect to see MUCH more of her in future episodes.
March 6th, 2007 at 4:39 pm
“he ‘He finally learned his lesson award’: Jack for putting his phone on vibrate during a stealth mission! Yes!”
Have to agree with that. It’s been like cringe fully stupid in previous seasons NOT switching your ring off when you’re trying to sneak places.
March 6th, 2007 at 4:49 pm
‘Who Knew’ Award: Tie between Jack and Morris, both for knowing Russian;
‘Drag Queen’ Award: Jack, for looking like his lipstick was smeared a bit in that last scene.
March 6th, 2007 at 4:54 pm
Most Trusting Dummy award goes to Reed for getting fooled by Tom again and again and again.
Fastest Recovery award goes to Denethor/Markov for getting up and being able to punch Jack merely seconds after getting punched multiple times in the face and losing his finger. Simply amazing.
March 6th, 2007 at 7:46 pm
The Pepto-Bismol Award goes to Tom Lennox for being able to control his bowel movements whilst being grilled by the terrifyingly formidable and unbelievably frightening VP.
Like, really, even *I* was about to sh*t myself during that scene…
March 6th, 2007 at 7:49 pm
Where the hell did JB think he was going after he finished interrogating Markov? “Thanks, you’ve given me the information I needed, now I’m gonna walk to the door with a bomb in it, behind which your security forces and the rest of the russian embassy are waiting.”
Have to disagree with Powers Boothe being the scariest VP ever btw.
March 6th, 2007 at 8:36 pm
Dude, this $hit is hilarious man, keep it coming!
March 6th, 2007 at 8:47 pm
You should award some points to President Palmer for not whispering once in this episode.
Of course it’s product placement, but… the few times I’ve waited at an airport they played some modified CNN channel, so maybe Karen Hayes had to use her sweet phone to watch her favorite news channel.
March 6th, 2007 at 10:43 pm
+ 5 more to Powers Booth for having an attractive assistant. She’s no Nadia, but good for him.
March 6th, 2007 at 10:50 pm
“Have to disagree with Powers Boothe being the scariest VP ever btw.?
Surely you don’t mean in the 24 universe. I mean, which 24 VP was scarier than the current one?
But yeah, the way Jack Bauer got caught had me a bit confused. I mean, even assuming that he *didn’t* know there was bomb waiting for him on the other side, (which is a fair enough assumption) did he think he would be able to just walk out the door without, y’know, being riddled with bullets?
The writers could’ve definitely thought that out better…
March 7th, 2007 at 1:02 am
Sadest person award : goes to the Russian consulate, who cannot smile at all. Heck, when he tries to, all he actually manages to do is smirk and sulk at the same time with a smidge of hatred!
March 7th, 2007 at 8:13 am
That Russian consulate had the weirdest voice. He sounded and looked like a toad. I agree with S.A.M. about giving point to VP for the attractive assistant.
March 7th, 2007 at 11:01 am
Very excited for the return of Aaron Pierce next week! Way to go Martha, for snagging someone almost as great as Jack Bauer.
March 7th, 2007 at 11:22 am
Why does the VP have so many points? He’s a sinister asshole. He wants to lock up every arabic person in the U.S. HELLO Japanese camps all over again - didn’t we learn our lesson the first time?
Is there a tally of every character somewhere to look at? This one has the characters that did something in this episode’s points, but where is a conglomorate of all the characters?
March 7th, 2007 at 11:23 am
Nevermind, found it.
March 7th, 2007 at 12:32 pm
How about some points to Karen Hayes for taking back her resignation so she can take on that scary VP “Cy.”
March 7th, 2007 at 1:02 pm
Some people think the VP isnt the scariest VP ever??? Imagine if Curly Bill Brocius - the leader from Tombstone’s Cowboys’ gang - suddenly became VP of the United States because that’s what just happened.
Most Disturbing Face Twitch Award - The Russian Consulate…His left cheek had a 5 minute seizure.
March 7th, 2007 at 3:44 pm
Just a reminder for the new people, or people that don’t know what quite goes on here.
Whenever someone is added to the Countdown, they start out with 100 points regardless of who they are. So, Exodous that’s why VP Powers Boothe has a lot of points. This is the first time he’s been in the Countdown and he started off with 100 points.
March 7th, 2007 at 8:21 pm
Aaron Pierce is coming back next week? Excellent!
(The comment about the Veep not being the scariest ever was just a bad joke about you-know-who. If VP Powers shoots Tom Lennox in the face I’ll reappraise though.)
March 8th, 2007 at 10:45 am
I thought jack should have lost more than 12 points for letting his gaurd down. That was horrible of him… he just finds out that the location of three nuclear bombs, and then just walks into a trap, that he knows is there… however, now that he is caught, i have to admit i’m very excited about what this means for upcoming episodes.
March 9th, 2007 at 8:00 am
I think the Veep’s secretary should get some points too. Ok, she’s sorta new, but she had some good screen time and was all over Veep. I wonder if she’ll wise up about the plan. I mean isn’t the Veep involved in this entire assassination attempt? If not, who?
March 10th, 2007 at 11:56 am
This season needed the lesser Palmer to get removed by any means necessary. How is he not in negative points for failure to do anything right? And Nadia - are you serious? At this point she should be getting interrogated for aiding terrorists!!
Give this season another shot of adrenaline like it had at the end of episode 12 and bring on Ricky Schroeder for episode 13!!!!
March 12th, 2007 at 5:08 am
Nice comment. Just one detail:
- “Cajones” means “drawers” in spanish.
I think you meant “Cojones” which means
“Balls” or “Bollocks”
Greetings
March 12th, 2007 at 8:51 am
OH, thanks Spaniard!
March 12th, 2007 at 11:42 am
On the phone a lot award: Every time they showed Bill Buchanan he was on the phone. At least for the first 45 min of the show!
Great job Aaron!
April 11th, 2007 at 11:51 am
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